Sherrie Weller

And that is just part one of the plan. We know there is a part two, and maybe beyond, which hasn't been made public.

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

time for us to learn about Paul Newby, North Carolina Chief Justice, christofascist, serial adopter, adoption agency founder, and baby thief. 🥚

https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court

Yes to more practices informed by adoptee voices and perspectives. Especially when it comes to those whose link to & knowledge of family medical history was severed like a Fiskers to a thread.

Got a copy of my birth certificate& same scenario screamed out fr the reissued doc. First mom erased, replaced with adoptive P’s, making it seem they were bio parents. Adopted thru Catholic Soc. services. Was a chilling & effective collusion btw church&state to rewrite a legal document & narrative.

Really? You're gonna make me do this one?

Thou Shalt Not Starve Your Own People.

There you go.

Can’t stop watching this…❤️

This.

National Adoption Awareness Month, which is about promoting #adoption, begins today. none of the promotional material contains an answer to the following naïve question:

why does “give this child a loving and safe home” require “erase and rewrite this child’s entire identity”?

This.

All I hear are two second wave feminists organization names combined.

A Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan production.

YouTube video by The Joy Reid Show Dystopian Realities: The Handmaid's Tale and Project 2025 | The Joy Reid Show

History of Maternity Homes 🥚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnHY... Slanted towards the public. But adoption history, though it skips the earliest Maternity homes which were in France who housed mostly *aped servants, etc.

Only for the mothers though bc obviously they were all immaculate conceptions. The Magdalene Sisters film painted an accurate and sobering picture of this:

youtu.be/Ps5NXYuLFms?...

The Devastating History of Baby Relinquishment Positioning baby drop boxes as a solution to unwanted pregnancy ignores important historical lessons.

Agreed. And lest we all forget:
“Safe Haven Baby Boxes are a new spin on a very old idea, motivated by religious conservatism and societal policing of women’s sexuality and reproduction.”

time.com/7280998/deva...

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raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

Pollinator Gardens Explained a fiery writer-owned cooperative

FLAMING HYDRA! A new COMIC from Emily Flake: Pollinator Gardens Explained flaminghydra.com/pollinator-g...

Exactly.

This is high art

This chills my feminist soul…

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thanks for reposting this powerful and important article. As an adoptee who found my birthmother at 32, we need more of these stories to counter the mythical “lucky” narrative.

Lucky Adoptee - Severance Magazine By Patricia Knight Meyer I wake from a bad night’s sleep, full of tossing and turning in sweaty sheets. Menopause? Maybe? Most women would ask their mother, but for adoptees like me, that’s rarely pos...

Just thought I'd share an #adopteestory I wrote last St. Patty's Day called "Lucky Adoptee" you can read it here: severancemag.com/lucky-adoptee/ #adoptees #adoptiontrauma #adopteesky #adopteesofbluesky #Adoption #myadoptedlife

“Women must write her self, [and must] bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies” - Hélène Cixous

"Fair is fair, right? If this legislature is so dedicated to regulating women's bodies and their access to contraceptives, then let's start policing men in the same way." - Rep Dr. Anita Somani, OB/Gyn, Ohio

Letterhead from Tekakwitha Indian Mission Inc., Sisseton South Dakota Letter dated April85th, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Seely: Thank you kindly for your donations of 10.00 for my little Indians. You’re the first invitation that was ever extended to one of our papooses to come and spend the vacation somewhere. We have a few little boys and girls who have no one at all interested, whether they live or die or come and go. I would send a little boy of six years or older or a little girl what ever you prefer. These Indian children are very little trouble, especially the one I have in mind. If you really mean it, I will see that we get him ready; you may have him any time you desire. I am not making any inquiries about you, because it takes a good person to make an offer as you did. Please, let me know. With kindest regards, Signature illegible

Was adoption human trafficking?

Is adoption human trafficking?

Is paying a fee for a human being to a for-profit company human trafficking?

Is it human trafficking if there is no profit?

Is it ethical or moral?🥚

*These are rhetorical questions for non-adoptees.

So, just how long until unwed mother and baby homes start popping up? Damn straight this is Baby Scoop 2.0.

So how’s it going so far?

When orphans aren't actually orphans In "The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow," Kristen Martin digs into the troubled history of orphanhood in America.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"Q: You did archival research...letters that parents & kids involved in orphan trains wrote to the Children’s Aid Society in the 1800s. What was it like reading those letters?

"A: parents...asking for info. about their children...Those letters devastated me."
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